Traduction de «organic mercury compound » (Anglais → Français) :

methylmercury: the simplest organic mercury compound, an ion with the chemical

The limit value for metallic, inorganic mercury in blood is 25 micrograms, and that for organic mercury compounds is 100 micrograms.

(Return tabled) Question No. 845 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With regard to children’s health and the environment: (a) what action has the government undertaken to integrate children’s environmental health into existing public health programs; (b) what specific action is the government undertaking to advocate for the consideration and assessment of hazardous environmental influences on children’s health and development, (i) in Canada, (ii) internationally; (c) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise the political profile of children’s environmental health, (i) locally, (ii) regionally, (iii) nationally; (d) in relation to its contaminated sites, (i) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise awareness about ch ...[+++]ildren’s environmental health, (ii) what are all contaminated sites where action has been taken to raise awareness, (iii) what was the risk; (iv) what was the action taken; (e) what are all government activities focused on children’s environmental health; (f) what are all existing government activities focused on prevention of environmental exposures aimed at protecting children's health; (g) what governmental action has been undertaken to prevent (i) pre-conception, prenatal, and childhood exposures, (ii) air, consumer products, food, soil/dust, water, and other physical environmental exposures, (iii) biological, chemical, and physical hazards; (h) how has the government taken children's vulnerabilities into account in developing environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards; (i) what targeted environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards have already been put in place to protect children's health, and what policies, regulations, and standards are currently under consideration; (j) what action is being undertaken by the government to measure the extent to which pregnant women and their babies are exposed to common environmental chemicals, and what health risks, if any, are associated with th ...

Heavy metals like mercury and organic metal compounds like tributyltin (TBT) pollute water and sediments and are currently accumulating in the aquatic food chain.

"Mr. President, early in the morning of 1 November at the premises of Sandoz AG in Sweizerhalle, Switzerland, 1000 tonnes of chemical products, mainly insecticides (containing organic phosphrous compounds) and fungicides (containing mercury) caught fire.

"Mr. President, early in the morning of 1 November at the premises of Sandoz AG in Sweizerhalle, Switzerland, 1000 tonnes of chemical products, mainly insecticides (containing organic phosphrous compounds) and fungicides (containing mercury) caught fire.